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In the fourth episode of the introductory Industry Interaction Series, we speak to Ramkrishna (Ramki) the Co Founder & Chief Operating Officer at Zoreum BlockChain Labs Pvt Ltd. Popularly know as RK in Fintech circle, he is an Alumni of the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. He is a Techno entrepreneur, has founded Pranco Blockchain Technologies Pvt. Ltd, specialised in Block Chain Technologies and P2P decentralised modules.A professional business coach and mentor, he is dedicated to enabling the achievement of innate entrepreneurial potential particularly in high-growth economies. He helps growing early-stage start-ups into successful businesses, has a strong network of Angel investors and venture capitalists in Asian & emerging financial markets . He is experienced in technology sales and product management with sectors like Pharma, IT, supply chain, healthcare, real estate. He is an ICO consultant/promoter/Investor/researcher and an experienced entrepreneur with start-ups spanning digital media, online and offline retail, B2B, logistics, and recruitment of right talent. In his latest stint as CEO of Zoreum labs, he is promoting development of 3 dApps, one in the pharma space called Aslimedicine. LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ramkrishna-ramki-4a611425/

In this 3rd segment of our introductory Industry Interaction series, we talk to Mr. Pankaj Diwan, Founder IdeaLabs and Co-Founder of Block91, who describes himself as a Moonshot thinker, Mentor, Technology Evangelist, Fuelling Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Enabler in Startup Ecosystem As Co-Founder of Block91, a Hyderabad based global blockchain development and consulting firm with a distributed team across North America, Europe and Asia, he is focused on building next generation applications using blockchain and smart contract technology. As founder of Idealabs, he works with Policy making bodies, Universities and Colleges in setting up Incubation Centres and Innovation Hubs to hone skills in emerging technologies, promote product thinking, innovation and entrepreneurship. He helps incubate startups and provide them mentoring and technology support. we run several initiatives like workshops, bootcamp and hackathons He sits on the Steering Commite member of J-Hub EXCITE, the first of its kind Innovation and Entrepreneurship development initiative by any university in India @ JNTU Hyderabad, the biggest technological university in India, where EXCITE offers a six weeks summer school around Product building, Innovation and Entrepreneurship on cutting edge technologies like Blockchain, AI/ML, AR/VR and IoT. He serves as the Co-Chair, SIG, Open Innovation, created by the Telangana Government as part of its documented policy http://www.telangana.gov.in/PDFDocuments/Telangana_Innovation_Policy_2016.pdf to seed the culture of Innovation and support early stage Startups. Apart from these, Pankaj is a Member of the Organizing Team of TEDx Hyderabad, is the Founding Member and convener of Hyderabad Hackers and is also a part of the Jury on HYSEA, the biggest Industry body representing all IT and ITeS companies in the state of Telangana. LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/diwanpankaj/

In the second episode of our introductory Industry Interaction Series, we speak to Mr Rama Iyer, President & CTO - Eleven01, Global Advisor - Commonwealth Youth (Malaysia) and Advisor, State of Assam on his pioneering experience developing India’ first home grown nextgen Blockchain protocol, his role in advising governments, the formation of Telangana's Blockchain district and his advise to Blockchain professionals and startups LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/riyer/

We see how governments across the world are rapidly embracing Blockchain and cryptocurrency technologies. Two major announcements from the tech and gaming worlds and how institutionalization via associations and regulation is lending stability and governance.

Today's edition is special to us for a couple of reasons. One, thanks to your support, we have now crossed the 10,000 listeners mark. And two we are going to introduce a new section where we chat with industry influencers and practitioners to get their perspectives. In the first such interaction, we spoke to a die-hard Rajanikanth fan, someone, who never fails to deliver on his witty T-shirts and who aspires to see his city of Hyderabad grow into a creative, innovation minded tech startup city. . Our Guest, Ramesh Loganathan is a Professor Co-Innovation at IIIT Hyderabad, Chief Innovation Officer (interim) of TS State Innovation Cell who comes with 20 years of R&D and Product Development experience. He's been a President of the Hyderabad Software Enterprises Association, Regional Member NASSCOM and co-founded the Headstar network (StartupSaturday) and actively advises and promotes incubators.. He is a member of several Standards Experts groups including J2EE, regularly speaks at tech conferences and has recently co-authored a book on "SOA Approach to Integration" We'd recommend you also check-out his series of articles advising start-ups on http://startuphyderabad.com/author/ramesh/ Coming up next is our meeting this afternoon at his T-Hub office...